August 2, 2025

ChoreoLab: Makers and Movers

Join us for the ChoreoLab’s inaugural performance on Saturday, Aug. 2, a showcase of emerging talent in dance and choreography. This one-week workshop culminates in an evening that highlights the creative process and collaboration between dancers and choreographers.

The Mover Track: Dancers aged 16-22 will present works created under the mentorship of esteemed choreographers Amy Seiwert and Caroline Dahm. Selected through an in-person Summer Intensive Audition, these dancers will bring their skills and passion to the stage in a series of captivating performances.

The Maker Track: Student choreographers aged 18-24 will unveil their original pieces, developed through seminars and mentorship. Guided by professional choreographers, these young creators have worked closely with dancers to explore and innovate within a process-oriented environment.

Experience the future of dance in an evening that celebrates creativity, mentorship, and collaboration.

CAROLINE DAHM

Caroline Dahm is a dancer, choreographer, and educator from Los Angeles, CA. A graduate of the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography, Dahm has performed a diverse repertoire and contributed original choreography across a wide range of artistic mediums. Her performance credits with companys include Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Kansas City Ballet, Buglisi Dance, Wylliams Henry Contemporary Dance Company, Owen/Cox Dance, Quixotic, San Francisco Dance Works, Malashock Dance, and several productions with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. As a choreographer, Dahm has created works for Cincinnati Ballet, SALT Contemporary Dance, Newport Contemporary Ballet, Indiana University, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, UMKC Conservatory, and Wylliams Henry Contemporary Dance Company. Notably, she has developed five original works for Kansas City Ballet, including a dance film Misguided. In addition to her performing and choreographic endeavors, Dahm is a dedicated educator. She serves as an Adjunct Professor of Dance at the UMKC Conservatory, mentors Trainees at the Kansas City Ballet, and teaches master classes across the country. Caroline frequently teaches at Steps on Broadway in New York City. Dahm’s work has been recognized with a two-year residency from the Charlotte Street Foundation. She received a Laurel Award for Best Overall Dance Film for her original dance film Face Me I Face You, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival which she directed, choreographed, danced, produced, and edited. Passionate about the transformative power of movement, Dahm believes that art has the ability to change lives, and she continues to explore its boundless possibilities. @sweetcarolinevd

AMY SEIWERT

Amy Seiwert, the Artistic Director of Smuin Contemporary Ballet, is the recipient of numerous choreographic awards, including a “Goldie” award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which described Seiwert as the Bay Area’s most original dance thinker, “taking what some consider a dead language and using it with a 21st-century lingo to tell us something about who we are.” In 2017 Seiwert’s first full-evening work, Wandering, set to Schubert’s Winterreise, was commissioned by the Joyce Theater in New York. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center have also supported Seiwert’s creations. A former Artist in Residence at ODC Theater, she has also served on the Artist Faculty for Jacob’s Pillow’s Contemporary Ballet program. Her creations are in the repertory of Smuin, ODC/Dance, BalletX, Ballet Austin, and AXIS Dance, as well as Washington, Atlanta, Oakland, Kansas City, Colorado, Louisville, Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, American Repertory, and Milwaukee Ballets.